Author: simonegseol

1. Market as you wish to be marketed to.
There's clearly something that leads well-intentioned people to believe that it's okay to market to others in a different way than they'd prefer to be marketed to.
Like...

(The photo is of me and some beautiful friends who are part of my network, but not part of this conversation.)
The following is a not-that-heavily-edited reproduction of a chat that I had with my friend, in which she wanted to brainstorm but I ended up...

I find myself teaching a lot nowadays.
Here is what I am learning about teaching.
The most common mistake made by new teachers is assuming that students are there for information. So, it's easy to get stressed out thinking you have to come up with, put together...

Friends, lovers, countrymen --
I am forcing myself to write this post because I must open up a valve. I'm going crazy. You see, it's been a while -- a long while -- since I have written something that I wasn't submitting to an editor.
On the one hand,...

(This essay is my contribution to Sas Pethetick's International Women's Day Project, Voices Rising.)
The biggest anxiety attacks happen at 2 AM.
One evening, like many evenings before, I sat at my desk, paralyzed with fear and a nebulous dread, the persistent and dire sense that something is...

I've been procrastinating writing this post because it's almost been too overwhelming and I don't know how to begin to talk about it.
Except, well, how about just the basics?
I decided to draw one black woman a day to celebrate Black History Month.
I decided to create...

To celebrate Black History Month, I decided to illustrate one inspiring Black woman a day, for the entire month of February 2017.
At the end of the month, I will create a digital, printable coloring book that combines all 28 of the drawings.
You can "purchase" the coloring book...

Surprising to me, you see.
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1. Do it all for the joy.
It's okay and normal to enjoy and feel energized from validation and praise.
I actually think that trying too hard to rise above that totally human impulse can be a form of self-abuse. You're not Siddhartha Gautama, and I don't...

I've been collecting notes to do an essay on the theme of suffering in art.
For it, I had the scene of Jesus' entombment painted by that fastidious German master of the grotesque, Matthias Grunewald. I had Frida Kahlo's self-portrait as a leaping stag, pierced by a dozen arrows....